The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton with hand-colored illustrations

by Humphry Repton, John Claudius Loudon

$8,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

London: Printed for the Editor, 1840. First collected edition. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down retaining one morocco label with the second replaced. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 215 x 130mm and collating xxxi, 1 , 619: bound without half title, else complete including 253 engraved illustrations, of which 181 are expertly hand-colored. A lovely, square

• Binding: Leather

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